November 2016

November 22, 2016

The MDP Summer Design Residency is granted to a creative practitioner or team whose experimental design work engages emerging issues in science, technology, culture, and society. The winning proposal—to be selected by a jury that includes…

November 14, 2016

by Godiva Reisenbichler, Nan Tsai, and Nicci Yin This fall, the faculty member Tim Durfee challenged his concept year students to to think about media and technology through spatial forms. The design brief for…

Lab Inquiries are at the heart of the Lab track curriculum. Inquiries are a series of intensive 2-5 week projects in which students use design as a mode of investigation, asking critical questions about the world of the future and what it means to design that world.

Thesis projects may tackle new topics or build upon the work that a student developed in response to the Lab Inquiries.